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216 color chart. HTML Tables. HTML Tags / Codes / Web Page Design. Css Zen Garden: The Beauty in CSS Design. User page design center. Inspiration - Color Theme Generator - TextMate/Emacs/Vim. #! /usr/bin/env ruby class MyClass def initialize ( x , y ) @x = x @y = y end # Generate color themes for your favorite text editor attr_reader :x , :y end string = > BLOCK test = string ~ /Ruby/ # Currently supports TextMate, Vim and Emacs y = ( 1 . . 1000 ) numbers = [ "ein" , "zwei" , "drei" ] # This example demonstrates how Ruby code will look for s in numbers puts ": " + s end Sweyla - Color Theme Generator function cmp ( x , y ) { time = new Date (). getTime (); alert ( time ); return x Syntax highlighted HTML here.

10 Excellent Open Source and Free Alternatives to Photoshop. Adobe Photoshop is a given in any designer’s wish list, and it comes with a host of features that allow for excellent and professional photo editing.

10 Excellent Open Source and Free Alternatives to Photoshop

The biggest obstacle to any designer who wants Photoshop is the price, which can be prohibitive. Fortunately there are a number of open source (and completely free) programs out there that do much of what Photoshop can, and sometimes more. In this collection, you will find 10 excellent examples of open source and free alternatives to Adobe Photoshop. This guest post for Six Revisions was written by Daniel Shain from LaptopLogic.com. At LaptopLogic you can have a look at the best gaming laptops and go through the latest laptop reviews. GIMP stands for “GNU image manipulation program”, and it is one of the oldest and most well known alternatives to Photoshop in existence.

If just having the feature set isn’t enough for you, there is an alternative based on GIMP known as GIMPShop. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11 Free Adobe Photoshop Alternatives (Softwares) Editor’s note: For a newer, updated version of this post, check it out here.

11 Free Adobe Photoshop Alternatives (Softwares)

At the point this article was created, Adobe Photoshop CS3 still cost about USD $649 per copy. I think it’s safe to say that not everyone will afford to get a copy or willing to get a copy if all one need to do is just basic image editing stuff. HTML Ampersand Character Codes. Unicode Character 'BLACK STAR' (U+2605) Color Scheme Generator. User page design center/Style. Layout themes[edit] Article format[edit] The default format for user pages is the article format, using standard headings, paragraphs, bulleted lists, etc.

User page design center/Style

But an article-styled user page need not look drab and is more than adequate for presenting information about yourself. MediaWiki. MediaWiki is a free and open source wiki software, used to power wiki websites such as Wikipedia, Wiktionary and Commons, developed by the Wikimedia Foundation and others. It also runs thousands of other websites.[1] It is written in the PHP programming language and uses a backend database. The software has more than 700 configuration settings[5] and more than 1,800 extensions available for enabling various features to be added or changed.[6] On Wikipedia alone, more than 1000 automated and semi-automated bots and other tools have been developed to assist in editing.[7] It has also been deployed by some companies as an internal knowledge management system,[8] and some educators have assigned students to use MediaWiki for collaborative group projects.[9] License[edit] Development[edit]

Editing Wikitext/Tables. Where to Place the Styles Styles are written with a particular table level in mind.

Editing Wikitext/Tables

For example, a cell background color would be written at cell level, and a more general table background color would be written at table level. A separate row background could also be set with a style at the row level. Link. Hyperlinks allow users to easily move between pages. For basic information about wiki-markup in general, see Help:Editing. For various URLs of Wikimedia project pages, see Help:URL. With MediaWiki it is not possible to code hyperlinks using HTML. Instead there are three general types of hyperlinks, each with associated CSS formatting to distinguish them: wikilinks, interwiki links, and external links. Besides linking, each provides important additional features specific to wikis, such as automatic broken-link detection for wikilinks, and automatic numbering of external links when used as references. Help:Links. There are five types of links in MediaWiki: Internal links to other pages in the wikiExternal links to other websitesExternal links to internal pages in the wikiInterwiki links to other websites registered to the wiki in advanceInterlanguage links to other websites registered as other language versions of the wiki Internal links[edit | edit source] To add an internal link, enclose the name of the page you want to link to in double square brackets.

Help:Links

When you save the page, you'll see the new link pointing to your page. If the page exists already it is displayed in blue, if it does not, in red. The first letter of the target page is automatically capitalized, unless otherwise set by the admins, and spaces are represented as underscores (typing an underscore in the link will have a similar effect as typing a space, but is not recommended, since the underscore will also be shown in the text). Help:Contents. Help:Formatting. You can format your text by using wiki markup.

Help:Formatting

This consists of normal characters like asterisks, apostrophes or equal signs which have a special function in the wiki, sometimes depending on their position. For example, to format a word in italic, you include it in two pairs of apostrophes like ''this''. Text formatting markup Paragraphs. Help:Magic words. Magic words are strings of text that MediaWiki associates with a return value or function, such as time, site details, or page names.

Help:Magic words

This page is about usage of standard magic words; for a technical reference, see Manual:Magic words. There are three general types of magic words: Variables and parser functions can use subst:, just like templates. Page-dependent magic words will affect or return data about the current page (by default), even if the word is added through a transcluded template or included system message. Copy & Paste Excel to Wiki Converter.